Rochester police have released the name of the man found dead inside a Bartlett Street house last week.

Roosevelt Pride, 59, of Rochester was found dead inside 161 Bartlett St. on Thursday, several hours after a fire heavily damaged the two-story house in southwest Rochester, Rochester Police Investigator Jackie Shuman said Monday afternoon.

"The incident is being treated as suspicious pending further investigation," she said.

Police and fire officials had not yet determined how Pride died or the cause of the fire, Shuman said.

Rochester firefighters were called to the house just before 4:30 a.m., according to Lt. Dana Cieslinski of the Rochester Fire Department. Heavy fire in the back of the house caused a partial roof collapse, which impeded firefighters from immediately locating Pride within the home.

The fire heavily damaged the vacant house, which Cieslinski said was not boarded up when the fire broke out.

The flames melted siding on at least one neighboring house, she said. That home remains livable, she said.